Sunday, February 8, 2009

I hate the Tooth Fairy!

The downside of having trusting, faithful, loyal children is that, after what feels like a jillion missing teeth later, they still believe in the Tooth Fairy. Whether my ten-year-olds deep down think she is real or still believe in the process-put tooth under pillow, get money-is besides the point, I'm still paying them $$ for losing teeth.

I've been delinquent in my Tooth Fairy duties as of late (that's nothing new). So, I tried to come up with something extra special. Despite the $$, I love that my ten-year-old boys will still hold hands with me in public, they still love stuffed animals, and the still believe in the Tooth Fairy.

(not my picture. taken from the internet)

Tonight, I spent 45 minutes learning how to fold a dollar into a heart. Too bad that blanking Tooth Fairy is going to get all the credit.

28 comments:

you are such a good mommy to fold money into a heart. and ava lost her first tooth last month and still refuses to put her tooth under her pillow. she doesn't care if the tooth fairy is cute and pretty and will leave her money, she refuses to give leave to have an unknown something come into her room at night, in the dark and fish under her pillow for a tooth. it absolutely freaks her out. i kind of don't blame her.

My three oldest know that I am the tooth fairy for them. #3 just found out a week or two ago. He lost a tooth at school and basically told the Aide there that he didn't believe in the tooth fairy because there is no such thing as magic. Then he asked me if I am the tooth fairy and I came clean, but told him not to tell the two younger boys, especially since the youngest hasn't lost any teeth yet.

My boy (age 6) has a loose tooth and thought it would be cool to lose it on Christmas Eve because he wasn't sure if the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause knew each other (he'd be very surprised to know that they sleep in the same bed!) Unfortunately, the tooth didn't come out. He's shooting for Easter.

I owe my daugther still some back tooth fairy money. She has lost 2 teeth,and the tooth fairy did not have any change on hand to give. So I just told her I owed her something later. What I would like to know is who came up with this paying for lost teeth bit any way?

Annie Payne

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Annie is a Colorado native. She loves living in the Grand Junction/Fruita area with her husband of 20 years and their three children: Eighteen-year-old twin sons and sixteen-year-old daughter.

Annie has worked in media for over a decade. Annie started out as a blogger, where she chronicled the life and times of her growing family. Her blog attracted the attention of The Daily Sentinel, where they offered her the position of Home and Garden Columnist. Annie's enthusiasm for communicating with the masses, led her to become half of the "Gal Pal" team for Mix 104.3, where she co-hosted the drive home show every weekday with Roxy.

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